Behind Japan's Big Arms Buy
Behind Japan's Big Arms Buy How Washington Is Militarizing Its Asian Ally Humza Ahmad March 22, 2012, Foreign Affairs (Yuri Gripas / Courtesy Reuters) Last December, Tokyo announced that it would purchase Lockheed-Martin's F-35 Lightning II as its next-generation jet fighter. In doing so, it disappointed BAE Systems, the European maker of the Eurofighter Typhoon, which had hope..